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Show AS TO SCHOOL INTRUSIONS. It has of ton been sot forth in complaint, com-plaint, plea, argument, and admiration, that in Europe education in conducted along educational linos, without political politi-cal or statecraft interference, far moro completely than in tho United States. Wo hnvo hnd a surfeit of complaint about political interference in American Ameri-can schools, especially in the cities of tho United States. We arc assured that teachers hero and thero aro omployed becauso of their "pull" and not bo-causo bo-causo of their merit, and wo aro treated from timo to time with excoriations of school boards for their ignorance, thoir futility, their porsonal and associate degradation, and their unscientific action. ac-tion. All this, wo aro told, ia absolutely abso-lutely lacking in tho schools of Europe, aud especially thoso of Germany; where, wo aro assured, scholarship is valued for its own sake, and whero tho teachers, profossors, aud governing bodies of colleges and universities aro absolutely freo to conduct their institutions institu-tions on tho best and most thorough educational lines, without iutcrfereuco from anybody. Aud just when tho confidence in that way of putting it is supposed to bo fully ful-ly established in tho United States thero comes a rude shock from Germany. Ger-many. A young professor, named Lud-wig Lud-wig Bcrnhard, has been put iu as a fourth professor of economics in tho University of Borliu; ho as a young teacher has been thrown into its forco from tho University of Kiel; and this for reasons of statecraft not in tho least connected with tho educational work of thnt institution. Thero havo existed right along throo professorships of economics at Berlin, held by men of ripe scholarship, of long experience, of high stauding in their specialties. Thoy have had all needed assistance iu professors, and an ample number of teaching pupils. Tho university did not need a fourth professor at all, and, as a matter of fact, tho fourth professor saddled upon ,tho university, to its surprise sur-prise and disgust, will not exerciso his profession thero at all. lie is merely placed upon tho force by tho ministry and paid out of funds that woro set apart for an ontirely different purpose, to help tho Government. As a matter of fact,- Professor Bcrnhard gets this professorship as a reward for a recent published "study" of tho government's govern-ment's policy in Poland, he supporting the administration in its harsh and unprecedented un-precedented measures for the suppression suppres-sion of the Polish languago and tho expatriation ex-patriation so far as possible of tho Poles, interfering with the land titles, and fostering the acquisition of tho lands by German settlers. Professor Bcrnhard has given tho government its reasons for taking up that cruel work, and supplied it with a defense, more or less scholarly and complete, for its oppressions aud exactions. Professor Bombard was about to give up his Polish Po-lish studies, as we aro informed by a New York contemporary, and accept a call from a south German university, but tho government saw aud apprcciat- ! od his dofenso of its harsh policies in-Poland, in-Poland, and makes him the fourth pro- I fessor of economics in tho University of Berlin, not to do any work in the university, but in order that ho might continue his studies in further praise for and defense of tho government in its extraordinary, vicious, and wrong-headed wrong-headed policy with Gorman Poland. It is said that the scholarship of Germany Ger-many is up in arms against this intrusion intru-sion of statecraft and politics into educational edu-cational work: but, all tho same, the intrusion is made, and it will stick. And that is a conspicuous instance of tho difference between the Old World despotic methods and tho methods in vogue in the United Slates. Here, if any interference, such as is commonly complained of, is made public and is fully established, tho guilty ono is promptly retired nnd deprived of any opportunity to repeat his offonse. In the Old World there is not only no opportunity op-portunity to retiro any one so intruded into tho public schools, but those who complain of it aro tho ones who aro likely to rcccivo tho discipline and the government's position is maintained firmly and uncompromisingly. So that after all, whatovor may be said by way of unfavorable comparison between the American school methods and those of the Old World, we must givo in our adherence, whon all is snid nnd done, to tho American methods in schools, as well as in all other matters of administration adminis-tration and public control. |